The Garden of Words
The Garden of Words streams on Netflix and HIDIVE, and it's the most exquisitely rendered rain you'll ever see in animation: a short, hushed film about a teenage aspiring shoemaker and an older woman who keep meeting in a Tokyo garden on rainy mornings. Shinkai in miniature, and maybe his most beautiful.
About
Takao, a fifteen-year-old who dreams of designing shoes, skips his morning classes whenever it rains to sketch in a quiet garden pavilion. There he keeps encountering Yukari, a poised but troubled woman nursing wounds she won't explain. Across a rainy season they build a fragile, almost wordless intimacy, two lonely people meeting in a green pocket of the city, until the weather clears and the truth of who she is threatens to end it.
Information
- Japanese
- 言の葉の庭
- Premiered
- May 31, 2013
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 46 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- comix wave films inc.
- Source
- Original
- Themes
- angst, drama, japanese production, present, slice of life, asia
FAQ
It streams on Netflix and HIDIVE, subbed and dubbed.
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